Kerry O'Brien (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Primary Industries, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

The question that the minister perhaps did not hear was that in schedule 1 the minister has a new power to order the regulator to conduct an investigation if the minister determines it in the public interest to do so. Does the exercise of that power have specific accountability provisions to the parliament contained in the legislation? If not, why not? In relation to that type of power, why doesn’t the minister have to report to parliament in the event he does use his veto power in schedule 2?